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"Adrian Knoth" <adi@thur.de> wrote in message
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> You missed objects with negative storage size, but I guess bufferoverflows
> are offtopic in cla, otherwise it'd be called comp.lang.c.

If objects with negative storage size were supported, then I could declare

    Slack : String ( 1 .. -2_147_483_645 );

and get a big increase in available memory :)